Two treatises. The first, of the venereal pocks ... The second treatise of the gout ... Written in Latin and English / By Daniel Sennert ... [tr. by] Nicholas Culpeper ..., Abdiah Cole.

  • Daniel Sennert
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1660
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Credit: Two treatises. The first, of the venereal pocks ... The second treatise of the gout ... Written in Latin and English / By Daniel Sennert ... [tr. by] Nicholas Culpeper ..., Abdiah Cole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    out by his pencil,but fee ic forth to the life in 3 Epid. Seft. 3. (they are the words of vy^enashe reckons up there divers fymptomes, which areleeninthevene- r^^dlfeafeyasiflapofthumatioBs and fuppuratiohs of the flefh,the lying bare of the hiii^es and bores, and great fallings forth, fluxions collefited not like unto matter, bik fair worlJ^ a b4'ldne{s of the head ahd cb1n,with and without a Feaver, Sr. An¬ thonies fire with fmal Ulcers and inflamation, filthy and putrid fluxes,painsoftbe limbs, fwellings about the ;aws, iiiflamations df the tongue, impoftumations, about the teeth, flammering, corrii^t, and perplext fpeech, enterings into con- fumptions, burning Feavers, and which is worft of al, ulcers about the pubes andb^pci^es,^.. ^ ' in thaC placenefret fo^uch as&'carijy of the Vefleial dileale, but^^t^rib^ a moft gtievbus peltjij[encfy according to the judgn^ent of G^z/ewand al ihtefjiijfetetS^'tnd the evidence of the Hiflory ft felf witnefling the fame. For that difeafe for the naoft part invaded with a Feaver, which is not lo in the Veneral dif- cafe and was epidemical, whenas tfee Yenerai diieafe is dilTcminared only by con¬ tagion, and no other way, ai^d the method of curing that diieafe was far different from the cure of the veneral. ^odonem ^^^kith obferv’^ uptxi tt?e alfcaged place of a long titne agoe fome men have contradfed lorae hurts from uncleane and filthy w omen,as Qm- lielmus SaliceimyQordomuSyditid. VaJIeffUi de Jarantay do tefl:ify,the iafl of which lived'in the year i4i8, hut Saliceius flourifhe in the ycatei27o. Qordomw in 'the time betwwn them bbth. Nay hply wrrt doth teflefy that he that followeth liatldCs, Ihal have wormes and moths for his reward: but 1 do not think that thole V > f ^ with the Veneral difeafe of this time which firft of al ap¬ peared at the aforefaid time in Italy in the Camp of the French. Therefore though ^ardcetfusylibf detumoriht^et ulcer, merb.. QaUcap, 3. Writes that this TibeOri^i-4iapnledih.theyeare i478.and lib, i,de caufaIuisQaL cap. 3, Intheyeare i48o. nal of the yethe, differs from the relations of al others, fince al agree in this,that this diieafe Veneraldifr^^i not known iq Eiifope, before theyeareof cur Lord 1493. although it were cafe, *^ndemious in the weft Indies a long while before, and was brought by the Spani- ‘ardsbut of India into Italy. For when Chrift opher Columbus in the yeare 1492. ^ififhe month pf September undercook his firfl: voyage into the weft Indies, and Ipenc - almoft two years in that e:^edition, he returned into iSfjm in the yeare 1494. whofe Soiildiers beinginfewed with that difeafe in India, and afterwards fervmg in the Italian expedition, did fow amongft them this dileale. For as Qabnel^ar . jjw'f P'a 'T /f)^^ wrii:eS ofchisbufiriefs de worb. lib. i. ( Who reports his Father was ,c' ^r.CT' in tkac watre ), whenas the Spaniards ^ reafon of the deareneis of prcvifin did drive 'T'biicth^nferviceable nmltiiude, theFrench (|id privately entertain their harlots, beiii®dfed by their beauty, and fo in'fedted with their contagion contracted this difeafe,^^hich afterwards was firft of al fpred through their camps, 8c hence through¬ out Europe.,^ ■ Yet in lotne Countries it hath and doth yet fpred more frequently, m others cis 'more rare, to enquire into the caufe whereof, it being aihing hateful wefhal for- be^tb yet this 1 think is certain, that there are fewer fick of this dileale in 'ny than In lome other Countries. Qahriel ^FaVopius makes memion demorb* kal. ^ap'. ‘76. Of Jacob Carpi//, who was the firft alraoft that ufed the way of V cure by unton of Qui'ckfilver, who by this cure alone grew lo rich, that he left *^ Qbiri, befides Silver,4oooo. Golden * Scutatoes.And Capi*vaccii4S reports in traf^t:de lue Vener. cap. 12. In fine, that he hath gotten by the cure of the French Fox only -V above 180C0 Crowns of Gold. Ar.d L. Septal. /. 7. a«i wad: w. 186. writes . . S that At^lldine in^Brolm ‘Hojpifa/,there is oftentimes cured leventy in the Ipring f \ ‘ other leafonsalwaies two hundred. But 1 confefs ingenioufly, that v within thefe 34 yeares which 1 have piaftiftd at Witeberge,, and by Geds bltfling I do It not without profit, that I have not gained by the cure of this diieafe lo many V/ . crowns.
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